A study from researchers connected to the University of Tubingen and the University of Cape Town looked at hybridization in ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth ...

The biggest jump in body size among our ancestors happened around 2–2.5 million years ago, with the appearance of Homo rudolfensis or Homo erectus/ergaster, rather than gradually across the whole ...

In 2021, local journalists reported that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping human remains from the ...

An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the fearsome Komodo dragons that shared their home on the island of Flores in ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

Here's a more rigorous approach to explaining personality disorders like narcissism from the physical ground up.

For more than two centuries, a fallen Revolutionary War soldier was unknown and unnoticed. Now, thanks to happenstance and ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

Recently, a pair of scientists from the University of Utah determined that Lanmaoa must contain a totally novel psychedelic compound. Colin Domnauer, a mushroom expert and Ph.D. student at the ...